Stock-moving stanchion.



Patented may 29, |900.

W. GINGEBY.

STOCK MOVING STANCHION.

(Application led Aug. 28, 1899,)

(No Modul.)

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WILLIAM GINGERY, OF ATLANTIC, IOWA.

STOCKMOVING-STANCHION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 650,583, dated May 29,1900.

Appncaimna August 2s, 1899.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM GINGERY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlantic, in the county of Cass and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Stock-Moving Stanchion, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the transportation of stock, and has for its object to provide a simple and efficient attachment for an ordinary farm-wagon through the medium of which stock may be hauled from one place to another without danger of their jumping from the wagon or otherwise injuring themselves.

My invention is also applicable to fiat-cars and to other vehicles com mouly used for the transportation of stock.

To these ends the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention;

In thc drawings forming a portion of thisspecification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate like and corresponding` parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device as detached from a wagon. Fig. 2 is a section of a wagon-body with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawings, my invention consists of a framework comprising two sills 5 and G, having front and rear cross-pieces 7 and 8 secured thereto, and from the sills 5 and G and intermediate the ends of the crosspieces rise uprights 9 and 10, connected at their upper ends by additional cross-pieces 11 and 12, extending beyond the outer faces of said uprights. Upon the outer faces of the uprights 9 and 10 are secured plates 11 and 12, which extend from the upper ends of the uprights downwardly therefrom a suitable distance. Upon the outer faces of the plates 11 and 12 are secured plates 13 and 14, extending downwardly and below the sills 5 and 6 and separated from the uprights 9 and 10,be

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low the plates 11 and 12, by interspaces 1l, Y. Y and 15, as shown. The ends ofthe/crosspieces 11a and 12a lie substantially flush with 55 the outer faces of the plates 13 and 14. The braces 1G extend' from the sills 5 and. G to the uprights 9 and 10 and serve to hold them rigidly in place. v

Intermediate the uprights 9 and 10 are ad- 6o ditional removable uprights 17 and 18, the lower ends of which are connected with the cross-pieces 7 and S through the medium of pins 19, passed through alining perforations in said uprights and cross-pieces. The upper ends of the uprights 17 and 18 lie at either side of a fixed pin 21, the upper end of the upright 18 lying between the pin 2l and the removable pin 22, while the upper end of ther upright 17 lies between the pin 21 and the re- 7o movable pin 23. Thus by withdrawing the pins 22 and 23 the upper ends of the uprights 17 and 18 may be pressed outwardly to admit the insertion of the heads of animals at times, and when this is not a suliicient space the pins 7 5 19 may be withdrawn. Conversely, the pins 22 and 23 may be allowed to remain in place and either or both of the pins 19 withdrawn to enable the manipulation of the uprights for the insertion of the head of an animal.

The application of my invention is shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and it will be seen that in this application I place the framework to receive in the interspaces 14 and 15 the sides 25 and 26 of a wagon-body, after which the 85 retainingrod 27 is passed laterally of and beneath the wagon-body and through perforations in the lower ends of the plates 13 and 14. The bar 27 is held in place Vby means of a nut 28, although, as will be readily under- 9o stood, a pin and perforation may be substituted therefor.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the lower ends of the plates 1l and 12 form stop-shoulders, which rest upon the upper edges of the sides of the vehicle-body, so as to support and brace the frame.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- 1. In a cattle-stanchion, a frame comprisroo ing opposite substantially-parallel sills, fixed uprights rising fromqintermediate points of the sills and alined transversely thereof, upper and lower pairs of cross-'bars embracing the uprights, connecting the same, and corn-V lpleting the frame, laterally-adjustable up- 2. A cattle-stanchion comprising sills, up-y rights fixed to the sills and alined transversely thereof, cross-bars disposed upon opposite sidesl of the uprights andV connecting their upper ends, cross-bars disposed upon oppo- 20 site sides ofthe uprights and connecting their lower ends, uprights removably disposed between the fixed uprights and the cross-bars, braces at opposite sides of the uprights and connecting them with the sills, upright plates fixed between the upper cross-bars and separated froln the adjacent fixed uprights by interspaces, said plates extending below the sills, and adapted to receive the sides of a Vehicle between them and the adjacent fixed uprights and sills, and a transverse bar removably engaged with the upright plates and passing below the sills, transversely thereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM GINGERY.

lVitnesses: LESLIE GINGERY,

J. J. GINGERY. 

